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34. Rhipidura cinerea. 



Khipidura cinerea, Wallace, P. Z. S. 18G5, p. 477 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. 

 i. p. 331, no. 4981. 



Adult (tj-pe of species). General colour above dark ashy grey, the 

 feathers of the forehead and over the eye with blackish centres ; 

 sides of face dull blackish ; above the eye a white spot ; wings 

 brown, the coverts edged with ashy ; lateral rump-feathers with 

 some silky-white plumes intermixed ; upper tail-coverts dark ashy ; 

 tail brown, with brown shafts ; cheeks and throat pure white ; chest 

 ashy grey, with ovate spots of white rather indistinct ; centre of 

 body and under tail-coverts white, the sides of the body ashy grey ; 

 thighs ashy ; under wing-coverts white ; axillaries ashy brown, 

 with whitish edgings to the feathers. Total length 6"9 inches, cul- 

 men 0'6, wing 3"3, tail 3*4, tarsus 0-6. 



Hah. Ceram. 



a. Ad. sk. E. Ceram. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Tj'pe of species.) 



35. Ehipidura perlata. 



Ehipidura perlata, S. Mull. Nofuurl. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. p. 185; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 259 ; Bj). Consp. i. p. 323 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 331, no. 4969. 

 Leucocerca rhombifer, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 57. 

 Rhipidura guttata. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 330, no. 4961. 

 Rhipidura rhombifer, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 331, no. 4978 : Sharne, 



Ibw, 1877, p. 18. 

 Leucocerca perlata, Salmd. Ucc. Born. p. 136. 



Adult male. General colour above dark slate-colour, the wing- 

 coverts coloured like the back ; greater coverts and quills blackish, 

 externally edged with slaty, the median and greater series with 

 nearly obsolete tiny spots of white ; tail black, the three outer 

 feathers broadly tipped with white, and a slight spot of white on 

 the fourth (often absent) ; lores, feathers round the eye, and ear- 

 coverts black ; above the eye a streak of black ; cheeks and throat 

 slaty blackish, with small tips or apical spots of whitish in the form 

 of streaks ; fore neck and breast also dark slate-colour, with distinct 

 ovate spots of white, increasing in extent on the latter, and equally 

 distinct on the sides of the neck ; sides of the body also slaty grey, 

 the spots disappearing on the flanks ; centre of body and under tail- 

 coverts white ; thighs duU ashy brown ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries brown, edged with white ; " biU black ; legs dark purplish 

 leaden; iris dark brown" {A.Everett). Total length 6-8 inches, 

 culmen 0-65, wing 3-35, tail 3-65, tarsus 0-65. 



Hah. Malayan peninsula, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



a. c? ad. sk. Mount Ophir, Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



h. Ad. sk. Java. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Sumatra. Purchased. 



d. Ad. sk. Borneo. 



